[Fwd: Re: [school-discuss] How to present Linux to schools]

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Subject: Re: [school-discuss] How to present Linux to schools
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:57:43 -0400
From: Matt Drew <mdrew@redhat.com>
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
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Cameron Miller wrote:
 > Randy Smith wrote:
 >
 >> First, thank you all for your responses. I'm beginning a project

with the
 >> local college to build a sample lab. The I want to use this to
 >> demonstrate
 >> Linux and what it can do.
 >>
 >> My biggest problem is that some of the schools in the area are
so poor
 >> that they are completely funded by grants (including a few Gates

 >> Foundation Grants). That pulls most of the teeth out of the
"cost of
 >> ownership" arguments.
 >>
 >> That aside, the tech crew at these schools are all Windows guys.
I
 >> suggested FreeBSD for a DNS server because the Windows box
wasn't
 >> working right and I got that blank stare.
 >>
 >> I have seen asked somewhere (this list maybe) for a list of
Windows and
 >> OSS equivalents but have not seen an answer. Eg MS Office <=>
Open
 >> Office. Does anyone know of such a list?
 >>
 >> Thanks again.
 >>
 >
 > Hey Randy,
 >
 > There was such a list of equivalents starting to form a couple of
days
 > ago on this list, (either this one or seul-edu) as part of these
 > threads.  I think one of the folks posted it up at the School
Forge
 > website?
 >
 > - cameron
 >

seul-edu has a chunk of good stuff here:

http://richtech.ca/seul/

but no matching to Windows applications.  The previous
message/thread is
here for those who missed it (like me):

http://archives.seul.org/schoolforge/discuss/Apr-2002/msg00291.html

David Bucknell said it would be posted to opensourceschools.org, but
I
was unable to find it.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

OFSET's Freeduc list is linked from schoolforge:

http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/

Wine has some software listed, but it is mostly higher-level Exam
Cram
type software:

http://appdb.codeweavers.org

Looks like there are holes to be filled with Wine testing for
existing
software, and getting a reasonable comparison database up.  More to
the
point, what are people using now?  What exactly needs to be
replaced/ or
working with Wine?  I'm going to pose this question to our NC pilot
folks as well, and let you know what comes up.

Matt
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